SEE THREAD 🧵We are thrilled to release our final line-up for this weekend, with 9 panels and over 30 speakers! Featuring keynote speaker @CBradburyRance and a performance by @RebelleVoices 📚🎶 Register FREE:

@RebelleVoices & so many thanks to our activist & scholarly speakers, including our academic keynote @CBradburyRance, who all made this weekend such an amazing queer community experienc❣️The whole organizing team is utterly overwhelmed by & grateful for all the positive feedback🏳️‍🌈#MTGconference.

We concluded MTG 2023: Disrupting Divisions with disruptive keynote, LGBTQ+ choir @RebelleVoices - thank you for lending your beautiful voices to our conference ❣️.

@victoria_k_p @udhriti @sg_rainbow And for our last panel of the conference, we are looking at queer parenting, with @EllenPleasance , @jc_jc2244 , and community speakers from My Surrogacy Journey #MTGconference.

@victoria_k_p Welcome back after our lunch break! For our third panel we are considering (safe) spaces, with @udhriti , Tiago Machado Costa, and community speakers RainbowAsia @sg_rainbow 🌈🗺️ #MTGconference.

And we just explored disruptive representation in literature, film, and TV, with Cheng-Chai Chiang, Tara Labovich, and MTG’s very own awesome @victoria_k_p Victoria K. Pistivsek 💖🖥️ #MTGconference.

@KingsCollegeLon We’re back! And we’ll start the day by talking about being authentically LGBTQIA+ online: Tanvir Alim, Russell Yap, and @tanvi_kanchan 📱🤳🏾 #MTGconference.

An hour until the second day of MTG 2023: Disrupting Divisions begins! We have four fantastic hybrid panels to learn from today🌈📚 we look forward to seeing you @KingsCollegeLon or online! #MTGconference . & if you still need a free ticket, get one here:

RT @russelljyap: Look ma, I’m in the line up!.

RT @tanvi_kanchan: excited to be presenting thoughts, insights and conversations from my phd research at @MTGConference tomorrow at KCL. en….

RT @thecrowbd: Excited to present at the @MTGConference tomorrow about representation politics in the social media. Join in!.

That’s our close for the day! Thank you to all our presenters so far, and all the audience questions - we’re excited to see you tomorrow in-person at King’s College London, or online on Teams!.

To finish off the day, we have Samantha Leyerle and Angela Acosta on a panel about queer theory and queer politics 📢🏳️‍🌈.

Next, we are thinking about Viral Considerations: speakers Moira Armstrong and community speaker @JKaye82 talk about LGBTQIA+ responses to various pandemics.

We’re about to start the panel on Educating Queerly: @philosophilcal , @b_stassin , Emilie Lechenaut, Elodie Géas, and Sarah Beech discuss all things educational! 🏫🌈.

@LDNtranspride @BlackTransUK @BlackTransUK spoke about what it means to rely on community support in the face of institutional neglect. Following this, please follow this link to donate to the recovery fund for the organisers!.

@LDNtranspride @BlackTransUK In the talk by @LDNtranspride we heard about the abolitionist campaign to protest the recall to prison of Sarah Jane Baker. Follow the link to read more and donate:.

Next, we are celebrating trans power! Danielle Buonaiuto talks about their research findings, while our community speakers @LDNtranspride and @BlackTransUK talk about the grassroots work they do.

Kicking off the first panel on LGBTQIA+ human rights are @gg_duplessis , @freyaproudman and our community speaker @nontumaraire on behalf of @microrainbow.

Thank you so much to our keynote speaker @CBradburyRance for the amazing keynote on ambivalent masculinities and the figure of the lesbian in cinema! A thought-provoking start to day one 🌈📚.